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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of eyewitness testimonies; letters; diaries; affidavits; and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps; ghettoes; and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably; the only apt comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This definitive edition of The Black Book; including for the first time materials omitted from previous editions; is a major addition to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular interest to students; teachers; and scholars of the Holocaust and those interested in the history of Europe.By the end of 1942; 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end of the war; nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust; about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black Book; compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman. Until now; The Black Book was only available in English in truncated editions. Because of its profound significance; this new and definitive English translation of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and intellectual event.From the time of the outbreak of the war; Ehrenburg and Grossman collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book. As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the war; Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials for a second edition; which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as Russian).Since the fall of the Soviet regime; Irina Ehrenburg; the daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg; has recovered the lost portions of the manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg include numerous documents that had been censored from the original manuscript; as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman family. In addition; she verified and; where appropriate; corrected the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier editions of The Black Book.